When others were thinking of getting some recipes, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were preparing for the New Year at home. This is the first time for the two of them to spend the New Year outside. The one in Huayuan County does not count. After all, there is a distance from Sanshui. The county is not far away, close to each other.
Datang’s New Year’s customs are a bit different from place to place, but the differences are not too great. Some of them evolved slowly later. Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan wanted to set up a large stage and let more than 30,000 people celebrate the New Year together. .
It happens to be able to take this opportunity to make the local people support Zhang Zhong even more. Then the money can only be paid by Zhang and Wang’s family. To be precise, it is Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. It is not a small amount of money. To include some red envelopes to be given.
"Xiaobao, where do you think we should arrange this new year together? Shouldn’t it be in a place close to several counties? It just happens to allow people from several counties to pass by, and it will take a few days to walk. , After all, it’s not like when they were working together at the beginning, just organize them casually.
Now there are many stalls and people are doing things in various places. They can’t be allowed to walk for half a month in a year. If they walk from the furthest place to the other side with only their feet, it will take half a month soon. Time, it's not New Year's Day, but suffering. Unfortunately, there is nothing on TV now, otherwise, you can watch the program no matter how far away. "
Wang Juan followed Zhang Xiaobao, and the two of them were walking around in the yard, thinking about how they should be here this year.
Zhang Xiaobao also wondered. It would be great if it was the same as before. Everyone worked in the same place and recruited casually. Those individuals came over. Now the houses are available, and the situation in each home is different. I want to continue. Learning the way of going up the mountain at that time is not enough.
After a few more steps, Zhang Xiaobao stopped and said to Wang Juan: “You can’t gather all the people together for the New Year. Then they will spend their own time. With the county as the unit, each county must organize a New Year celebration. Activities, let's tell them some methods, let them find someone to learn those comic dialogues or sketches.
For singing and dancing, we use some local ones. Let’s think of a few more. The main thing is to make fun and play some small games so that everyone can participate. We will also take care of things like firecrackers and dumplings, as well as new clothes, my dad. When the time comes, just stay here. You and I will go to one place, let your father go to one place, and then find the people in the inner courtyard to go to other places. "
Zhang Xiaobao actually wanted to spend the New Year with his family, but looking at the current situation, this idea is impossible to achieve, so the people here can only be dispersed so that the people here can feel the goodwill of the government.
After hearing this, Wang Juan shook his head: "If I don't leave, I will be with my family, aren't there so many people in the inner courtyard? Let them represent it. I'm here in Wule County. , To celebrate the New Year with the people here."
"That's okay, it's just that the people in the inner courtyard do not achieve the original purpose. After all, if we go there in person, our identities will be different." Zhang Xiaobao saw Wang Juan disagree, and happened to have the same. The idea was agreed.
"How can it be bad? The people don't think so much. As long as they give out those clothes and things, they don't care about who is in the past, and they can send individuals to represent the government. These things, while there are still Time, let your dad deliver it one by one. You don’t have to send everything to the people. If your dad has gone and brought things, then the local people will know what it means.
Now that the officials are honest, there is no need to worry that someone will be greedy for ink when handing out things. When the time comes, give the officials more things, and they will happily get things done. "
In fact, Wang Juan has always been very strange to this place. This strangeness is spiritual. Even if she has been able to arrange people here very well, she always feels that she is not from the same place. If she leaves during Chinese New Year Relatives will feel very lonely.
"Let’s do it, then, remember to organize the things you gave, and give less spiritual things. The main thing is things that can be helpful in life. Go, go back and pull a list to see what you need. ."
Zhang Xiaobao followed and said, pulling Wang Juan into the house to write a list. Don’t think that this year’s New Year’s home will bring out a lot of things, but these things are valuable to Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, and people in other states around will also know about it. this matter.
Maybe some individuals can come, so there will be more people in Luzhou. In this era when the production tools are not so developed, people are the best productive forces. When they wait to leave here, the people here will be there every year. Can provide a lot of money to the Zhang Wang family.
This is not to say that the people give it directly, but that the various chambers of commerce operate. The more people, the richer, the higher the output value of the chamber of commerce.
The two of them were busy with New Year's things, and the others were also thinking about it, especially those places that were affected by the disaster. Regardless of the things that have been obtained from the imperial court now, the speed of recovery is faster than that of Luzhou. The sky is one underground.
These state officials are not fools. They know that if they can win over the hearts of the people during the Chinese New Year and let the people have a good year, it will be good for the future. They already know about Zhang Zhong from their own channels, that is, the Chinese New Year before. At that time, I spent time with the people, and the Zhang family paid for some new year goods for the people.
They thought this method was good, but they couldn't come up with so much money. Finally, they came up with a method, which is to let the local businessmen pay the money, and after buying the new year's goods for the people, they can still leave some of the money.
Those businessmen didn't know that the lords in the state had already got their ideas on them, and they were still doing business with Luzhou, and at the same time applying to join the chamber of commerce in Luzhou. This required negotiation.
They want to join directly, without any money, and without the strict management of the chamber of commerce. In other words, the businessmen of these individual states want to reach an unrestricted cooperation with the chambers of commerce in Luzhou.
Zhang Xiaobao knew about this before, so of course he didn't do it. This is clearly the threat made by those chambers of commerce relying on the ability to control the trade activities around Luzhou. The original meaning was that if there is cooperation, then Luzhou is here. They have to give them a portion of the goods shipped, which are still relatively cheap.
At the same time, the chamber of commerce on Luzhou’s own side is not allowed to buy and sell things on their side. If you want to buy or sell something, you have to go through them first. If they don’t agree, they will block Luzhou’s sales to various places and let Luzhou’s goods Can't sell.
This blockade is not just blocking the road. They dare not do this. It is aimed at Luzhou. They will unite and will not sell any goods here or buy anything from here. They feel that they are capable of waiting for others. To achieve this, as long as it is united, it will be difficult for Luzhou to buy and sell.
For example, if they have good goods to buy, they can raise the price of such goods in the local area first. Anyway, they are all alliances, and they will not lose money. I also want to buy things from these merchants.
Their plan is good. Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan are also willing to cooperate, but it is definitely not a weak cooperation. The two of them proposed a new method, that is, outside merchants are willing to join the chamber of commerce, but the price of the goods needs to be based on The price given by the Chamber of Commerce for unified positioning.
You are not allowed to increase or decrease the price at will. If you have any need, you can apply to the Chamber of Commerce separately, and you cannot make a private decision before you apply.
Another point is that these merchants need to pay two money to join in, one is the entrance fee, this money is fixed, according to each merchant’s own scale, pay more, and then distribute the goods from other places. The proportion is also large. The least one needs to pay 100 guan, and the one with less than one hundred guan means the scale is not good enough, and the Zhang family is not cooperating.
You can’t take the 100 guan or more money back. It was obtained by the Chamber of Commerce in Zhang’s family. There is also a deposit, in order to prevent some people from disobeying the regulations and collateralizing goods privately or raising or lowering the price. , They need to take out a deposit, and if they don’t comply with the regulations, they will not return the deposit.
It is also collected according to their respective scales. In addition to this, outside merchants have to make an additional guarantee, that is, in terms of sales volume, it is impossible to give you as many goods as you want, just in case What if you can't sell it? What if you collect everything deliberately, then press the goods, and finally hit the Chamber of Commerce in Luzhou
The advantage given by the Zhangjia Chamber of Commerce is to help them advertise, including their local advertisements. The money is paid by the Chamber of Commerce, and they don’t need to take it themselves. Of course, if they want to increase their sales, they can advertise themselves and sell it. If there are too many goods, or the chamber of commerce you bought needs too many goods, there will be additional rewards at that time.
The businessmen also have to admit that this method is very good for controlling those who join, but they just don't want to be so restricted, so they are still negotiating with the Chamber of Commerce in Luzhou.
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan have also thought of some ways for this matter, that is to break them individually, as long as they loose their mouths, that is a good way, this method is very easy to use, find some merchants who are not strong enough, let them get the first Good thing, tear open the gap over there, and other merchants have to compromise.
Then naturally they would not get the same benefits as the previous merchants. When Zhang Xiaobao was about to start his hands, he was stopped by Wang Juan. Wang Juan felt that he should wait. If he uses this method now, it will let those merchants. There is a contradiction between them. In case of vicious competition between them, it will not only cause losses to themselves, but even the local economy will be affected.
Of course, this kind of vicious competition can benefit the people, as well as the various chambers of commerce in the Zhang family, but it will have a negative effect on the development of the entire region in the future.
Zhang Xiaobao stopped now, otherwise he could take a lot of advantage after messing up here.
But at this moment, officials from the surrounding state capital helped. They wanted to learn from Zhang Zhong to win the hearts of the people, and they couldn't get so much money, so they reached out to these local businessmen.
The local merchants will only recover recently. They all rely on goods shipped from Luzhou. They bought them and sold them not locally, but sold to the nearby states that were not affected by the disaster. They made some money, after all. Selling it to them in Luzhou is expensive.
Fortunately, Luzhou didn’t do everything right. Otherwise, after selling the goods to them, they would sell the leftover goods to the place where they wanted to sell at a lower price, and they would drop the goods in their hands. Even if it is the same price, they can't afford it, but they have to add a shipping fee.
The place was hit by the disaster, and their business was greatly affected. Now, before earning some money, they had just passed the crisis, but they were asked by government officials to eat.
The Chinese governor of the state capital of Lianzhou came personally to accompany these businessmen. If they were replaced by normal times or when there was no disaster, people in the government would find them businessmen. They would be very happy, even if they were to give the officials some money. At that time, there may be benefits waiting for them.
But now the local area is still recovering, how can there be any benefits? New Year’s Eve is approaching again. When the businessmen heard about this, they were scared when they received the invitation. It is probably nothing good. Otherwise, how could an official with the size of a state governor send them an invitation
It’s okay for someone with relatively strong ability to receive an invitation. This post looks pretty, and the price when it is made will not be low. The problem is that these small businessmen who usually do business also received invitations. This What means
The small businessman couldn't spend too much money to do things with the government. In that case, why did he say hello? The businessmen didn't understand, and they didn't dare not go there, so they had to tell their family members to go there in person.
When the place was reached, this place should be the entrance of the most expensive restaurant. Fang Cishi stood there to greet him personally. Such kind of hospitality made the merchants even more worried.
As the merchants arrived one by one, Fang Cishi counted the number of people. After one was not missing, he followed him upstairs. In order to make it easier for everyone to be together, more than one hundred merchants were arranged in adjacent houses with screens. The screens were removed, and there were walls blocking them, and these wooden walls had to be demolished.
The place suddenly became bigger. More than a hundred businessmen sat there in fear, waiting for Fang Cishi’s arrangement. They had already figured it out. If Fang Cishi asked for money, then the family would take less and give it directly. Fang Cishi, let Fang Cishi have a good year.
"Everyone, this officer is fortunate enough to get together with you today. Oh, this is too little at this time. It seems to be the first time since this officer took office. It's okay. Just get together more in the future. There will always be a number one. Next time, everyone, regardless of distance, can come is to give the official this face, the official first respects you a cup."
Seeing that everyone was there, Fang Cishi put down the shelf, took up his wine glass and said the opening words first, and everyone immediately followed, saying that everyone should respect Fang Cishi for such a thing, a glass of wine like this Drink it down.
The crowd continued to wait for Fang Cishi's next thing, they didn't believe it, Master Fang Cishi, who usually had difficulty seeing each other, had no request from them at this time.
"Everyone, the water in the past few months really caused the local people to suffer. If you want to come, you also have a deep understanding. People, but at all, without those people, it won't be good if you want to buy and sell, isn't it? reason?"
Before Fang Cishi waited for others to eat a few mouthfuls of food, he stood up and said with a glass of wine. He saw everyone nodding, and then said: "Here, I want to thank you all because of your hard work. Buying things in and selling them is because you sold the local things that made this place gradually recover. At this time, the officer will offer you another glass. Without you, there would be no prosperity in Lianzhou."
While talking, Fang Cishi drank the cup in one gulp. Of course, the other businessmen dared not drink it. Hearing Fang Cishi’s praise, everyone became more afraid. If the officials could say such things, wait. What price do people have to pay
Fang Cishi finished the drink and sat down again, ready to eat two mouthfuls of food. The businessman who was alive and well stood up immediately, holding the wine, and said to Fang Cishi: "Master Fang, in fact, Lianzhou can survive. It's all the credit of adults, and there are no adults in the middle to arrange scheduling. How do those people know how to do it? Those of us who do a little business won't make any more money.
I don’t know the money I made these days. I just made up for the money I lost some time ago. Thanks to the adults, I’m waiting for a few more months and I’ve made a lot of money. , Will definitely return the adults. "
What I mean by this is that I don’t have any money yet. I just made a profit. I want money to talk about it after two months. Other businessmen have also learnt to say that the main thing is to boast about the history. Money matters.
Fang Cishi can sit in this position, how could he not know the thoughts of the merchants? Seeing someone taking the lead in crying, I set my sights on this person, just watched and didn't talk, until I saw the person sweating, and then said with a smile:
"Zhang Dong's house, right? I heard that what you do there are all food businesses. You bought a lot of good food from Luzhou, and then you sold these good food to other places and bought it back. Some poor food is given to the local people. If you do this thing well, the people may starve to death. Your credit is not small, and the officials must give them a good compliment.
Well, okay, who said that businessmen do not care about the life and death of the people? I don’t think it is. At least Zhang Dong’s family can think of the people when they are in the disaster. It’s rare, the people will remember you. The same is true for a few others. The official will write a notice and post it to let the people understand. Who is behind them helping them.
Don’t worry, this official knows that yours is big, and this official won’t want your money. Yes, don’t use this money for your own benefit. Although the official’s family is not too rich, you can still use the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Today the official brought a hundred guanxi.
It’s not for you. This money is used by the official to give the people the New Year. It’s been a year and it’s not easy for the people. Do you think it’s not easy? Now it would be difficult to expect the people to live a good year on their own ability. Therefore, the officer thought for a while, and wanted to know what the officer was thinking about? "
Fang Cishi talked about it and didn't say anything else, and asked someone to bring the hundred guan money over and put it aside, looking at these businessmen and asking.
"I don't know what do you think, sir? Do you want those of us who do small business to help deliver some goods, adults, don’t worry, even if the goods are not available in the local area, as long as the people need it, I will help. If the adults buy it back, the price shouldn’t be expensive anymore. If it doesn’t work, just charge a capital.”
Zhang Dongjia had to speak out at this time. Who made it what he said just now? Jian Fang Cishi put his gaze on him again, and immediately began to speak.
"No, no, you only think of one aspect. Indeed, this time you need to transport things, especially some goods that are not available locally. By helping the people to survive, they will surely be able to have another good year for the people.
The official knows that a hundred guanxi is actually quite a lot, but if the money is used to give the people the New Year, it is far from enough. Do you know Zhang Cishi from Luzhou? There are many businessmen on his side united together, willing to spend money to buy new year goods for the people.
I was so worried about this matter, but now I don’t worry, because I found that everyone here is more benevolent than the businessmen in Luzhou, and they can now unite to pay for it. I think you will do it. Better than them, this is the popular support. You are all good people and you should be loved by the people.
It’s just such a thing, the officer knows, you have been thinking about finding opportunities to do more for the people, but you didn’t find it, thanks to Luzhou, otherwise the officer would not have thought of such a good way to accomplish you. The desire to do good to the people can help them live a good year.
Come, for this year, let's make another drink to make the people happy, so that you and the officials can feel at ease. Drink this glass of wine, and everyone can say how much money they are willing to spend. It depends on the officials who don’t do business like this. People, net worth is not good, can only take out a hundred guan, ashamed, ashamed. "
As soon as he finished speaking, Fang Cishi drank the wine. The other businessmen were so stupid. They haven't said anything yet, why are they taking the money? No wonder the adults said that he didn’t want the money. I thought it was really unnecessary to pay out this time. I now understand that it’s not that I don’t need to pay, but that I need to pay more. At least a hundred sticks are needed. Then it can't be compared to an adult without money.
Black, this black, one person has a hundred pens, then the total of these individuals is more than ten thousand pens.